Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania

Welcome to the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania!

Greetings from the HCWPA President...

July 15, 2025

It's been a busy year for Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania (HCWPA) members. And now we look forward to launching a new program year, this fall. Please consider joining or renewing your membership today. Your dues are essential to the continued life of the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania. Without them we could not carry out many of our program of events, activities, recruitment efforts, engagement with Harvard students from Western Pennsylvania who are currently on-campus.

Our standard one-year HCWPA membership is a very reasonable $55, which has not changed over the past 10 years, and is effective from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. Note that we offer a discounted HCWPA membership rate of $25 for those Harvard alums who have graduated in 2015 or later. Last year’s membership dues were inadvertently never solicited. In light of the absence of solicitation, if you did not pay dues voluntarily for this past year, it would be appreciated if you did so now. You can determine your membership status by following the Membership tab under the Welcome tab, once you have signed-in. All dues and donations are tax deductible as the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania has §501(c)(3) status. Please visit the “Membership” tab and click on “Join” or “Renew” on the HCWPA website at https://hcwesternpennsylvania.clubs.harvard.edu.

For your information, our Schools & Scholarship Committee is currently seeking Harvard alumni who are willing to interview local candidates for admission to Harvard’s Class of 2030. If you have the interest and the time, please feel free to contact the HCWPA Schools & Scholarship Committee Chair, Leigh Argentieri Coogan (Harvard Class of 2010) at coogan.leigh@gmail.com.

I encourage you to periodically visit our website regarding upcoming events including our annual Fall Family Picnic, from 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 7, 2025, in O’Hara Township Community Park. In addition, stay tuned for other networking opportunities and events throughout the upcoming academic year
including:
• The Harvard-Yale Game watch party, at noon on Saturday, November 22, 2025;
• Various ad hoc volunteer community service activities (yet to be announced);
• Periodic networking events such as lectures, plays and cultural district performances, and supper club outings
(both among Harvard alums and with the broader All-Ivy-Plus community in Pittsburgh);
• Our Annual Dinner meeting, at a date to be determined in May 2026, will culminate our program year.

On behalf of the HCWPA Executive Committee, I would like to extend our best wishes to you for a positive and productive year! If you have any questions, or if you want to share ideas to enhance our HCWPA offerings and club membership experience, please feel free to contact me at vij14@pitt.edu or via cellphone at 412-327-8459. If paying by check, please make your check payable to the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania and send via mail:

Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania
c/o Vince Lackner
The Lackner Group
Carnegie Office Park, Suite 290
800 North Bell Avenue
Carnegie, PA 15106

Warm regards,
Vincent O. Johnson; Harvard College Class of 1979